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I worked at Pixar for three years back in the early 2010s, and that book is mostly hot air. There was not a culture of extreme candor or honesty, at least not i
by digdig 9y ago
I worked at Pixar for three years back in the early 2010s, and that book is mostly hot air. There was not a culture of extreme candor or honesty, at least not in the department that writes all the core software.
- rootbear 9y agoI still haven't read it, but I really need to. I was in the Studio Tools group in the late 90s and thought that group functioned pretty well. I also never heard anything about John behaving badly, although it was generally acknowledged that he was a big kid and had to be tutored on things like good female characters. Reading this news about John has made me very sad. I wonder now if any of my female former coworkers were the subjects of unwanted attention from John. Sigh...
- digdig 9y ago> female former coworkers I didn't hear anything about this through the grapevine, but then again Tools was probably 95% male at the time. > I was in the Studio Tools group in the late 90s Pour one out for menv! That was fun software to work on.
- gt_ 9y agoOK I’m drooling reading comments from people who worked on that software at that time. Sounds like such a blast.
- rootbear 9y agoI (mostly) loved working at Pixar. They have some of the smartest people I've ever met there. I'd love to say I worked on some amazing, cutting edge features of the animation software, but honestly, I think the most important thing I did was to update the code base from K&R C to ANSI C. It was excruciatingly tedious work and took forever, but it was a necessary pre-condition to using C++ in future components.
- briankelly 9y agoA lot of it did read like hot air, the best parts were definitely the historical anecdotes.
- andrewstuart 9y agoManagement often think there is candor and honesty but they are completely unaware of the politics going on of the people below them in the hierarchy,
- toomim 9y agoThat's what the book said.
- nikofeyn 9y agoi haven't read the book yet, but it has been on my list. do you think that it's useful as something to shoot for? say everything in the book isn't truthful in reference to actual pixar conditions, but is it useful as an "idea of what could be"?
- nathankunicki 9y agoThe perspective looking down is always different from that seen looking up.